Recent content by mikedpe

What is not so good is the email I just received showing about 10 images lifted from the gallery, Very large horse lorry, riders have multiple mounts so that must be why they can not afford to buy those images they are sharing with lots of people. What is good is that email came from a rider...

Funny old world, now I have some very expensive photographic gear and I have seen people with equally and even more expensive cameras and yet I have been asked by many of these people how to get a good shot. I just told some fellow photographers a story today of what happened last year. A lady...

You could always contact the organisers with your concerns, most of the photographers I know do not operate in that manner. Mike

That was somewhat misunderstood, we all want riders to be looking at our images and we will all accept that maybe we did not get a good shot of that rider on the day, we are after all only human and therefore we make mistakes. (read spidges explanation for more) and therefore they will not...

Why are a number of photographers now doing this? In part it is due to having good conversations with riders such as the long thread that Spidge posted about. Mike

So we should just not talk about this at all? Repeatedly in this and other threads photographers have asked how we can stop the issues, provide a better service etc. etc. - I started the thread because I am having success and being supported by riders in getting images removed or paid for. The...

Actually the only ones we are complaining about are the ones that are not customers, as I have said a number of times the issue is not the 99% but the 1% and no these are not just young riders, it goes across the complete spectrum of riding ages and abilities. Mike

Photographers really appreciate people that take this approach. To cover the larger and higher classed events will often mean us bringing in photographers that charge us more i.e. they travel further, they have more expensive equipment to maintain etc. etc. which is why it costs more. Do you...

This is the old advertise where you stole from argument, sorry but not for me. Mike

Sorry but you are still wrong, there is no law that will make it illegal to publish photos to the internet. As to the software as I said, it is now much easier, in fact they teach the 5 year olds at the local primary school how to do it. Mike

Sorry but you are wrong, as the photographer they still have copyright protection. What they most likely doing is breaking the conditions of entry to the venue. As to copying images, it is modern software that has made it easier not more difficult. Just because you can does not mean you...

Nobody is looking for sympathy, but understanding of why we are legitimately angry after working our butts off to find work stolen. Good Enough to Steal - Good Enough to Deal Mike

Many fields have poor signal strengths, meaning difficult to email. I have the gallery set up for Facebook images Mike

This is the sort of issue that we as photographers need to work on with people like hho so that a good service is maintained. Mike

I do not know how you do think I should feel about this. I think you are reading things in to it that are not there. What I am saying here are things that are constantly repeated in photographers forums and photographers facebook groups. We are constantly looking at how we can provide a better...